Hi folks, First of all, let me say that, while I was once quite proficient at command line Unix, and some command line flavors of Linux as well, the insidious Microsoft has completely ruined my command line knowledge over the last few years. So, I guess I'm back to square one, if using any command line utilities are required here, and I am afraid that will be the case. I'm good at following instructions, though.
My computer is a 3 GHZ processor, with 768 MB of PC3200 DDR Ram, around 400 GB of hard drive space, and has Windows XP Home. Now, I recently got, and was able to install, the latest version of Ubuntu using the "Install Inside of Windows" feature. The install was quite seamless, and I am very impressed with it. I now have a dual boot system with Ubuntu and my Windows XP still very much intact, and I didn't need to have an anxiety attack to get it that way. LOL!. I am having a couple of problems, however. The main one right now is that my speech with Orca is very very sluggish at times, sometimes taking anywhere from a second or even more from the time I press a key to the time I hear any kind of feedback. I"m using, what I think, is Gnome speech and Espeak,which I believe comes set up standard with Orca. What can do to make this more responsive? Would the fact that I used the Install Inside of Windows feature to set up my Ubuntu system have anything at all to do with this problem? And, if I can get a good handle on that issue, my second biggest problem is that I stil have dial up internet, with no broadband at all in my immediate future. And, Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize dial up modems? What would be the easiest way to fix this issue? I suppose if any downloading is necessary, I can do that while logged in to the XP side of my dual boot, but for now, that pretty much eliminates using any kind of automatic download/updating ability or tools directly through Ubumtu.. Any instructions or pointers to any good documentation, especially if the documentation is aimed towards Linux/Ubuntu beginners, would be very much appreciated here. Thanks. ~Ann -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
